About this item
Highlights
- This collection casts an uncommonly bright glow.
- Author(s): Laura Grace Weldon
- 64 Pages
- Poetry, American
Description
About the Book
The poems in Blackbird are "sacraments of the ordinary." Laura Grace Weldon embraces the world with her close and loving attention so that the poems in this collection make us all look around with a renewed sense of wonder.Book Synopsis
This collection casts an uncommonly bright glow. In clear language these poems explore themes of connection and healing through subjects as unusual as cow pastures, dictionaries, to-do lists, and astrophysics. Beauty is revealed in what one reviewer calls "sacraments of the ordinary." Perfect for poetry lovers and those who haven't read a poem in years.
A portion of all book royalties will be donated to the Medina Raptor Center, a non-profit center in Ohio which rescues, rehabilitates, and releases injured and orphaned birds.
Review Quotes
I admire and learn from Laura Grace Weldon's writing. Her poems blossom from an inherent curiosity and grow strong under her compassionate treatment of the subject matter. Such fresh images and heartfelt insights move me to be a better writer.
--Susan F. Glassmeyer, author of Invisible Fish
When I take a few moments to read a Laura Grace Weldon poem, the sun comes out in my heart, and I know that the earth, for all its pain, is bathed in goodness.
--Alfred K. LaMotte, author of Savoring Eternity.
The miraculous, the heartbreaking, the beautiful are always right in front of us, disguised as the daily messiness of our lives. I finished Blackbird and took a long winter walk through the park, seeing the world with fresher, keener eyes, and a feeling of gratitude.
--George Bilgere, author of Blood Pages
Laura Grace Weldon invites us to engage our third eye, to truly examine "light in a window / laundry flapping defiantly on the line." With words intimate and lush, she guides us to spaces we pass by, take for granted, overlook in our super-charged lives.
--Kari Gunter-Seymour, author of Serving